The Blind Rage podcast: Horror Movie Commentaries

The Blind Rage Podcast ends the frigid month of January with a couple of firsts. The focus of this week’s episode is 1997’s PERFECT BLUE, a Japanese anime feature which tells the story of a former pop idol who becomes a stalker’s prey while struggling to make the transition from singer to serious actress. Also, this is the first time Tony fell asleep during a recording, which he vehemently denies....

On this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast, Tony and I focus on a prime (see what I did there?) example of contemporary horror: Mimi Cave’s FRESH, a very dark comedy that explores the perils of modern dating. Shot in Vancouver, British Colombia during the height of the pandemic, FRESH tells the story of Noah, a modern girl looking for love in all the wrong places. When she meets Steve in the...

Maria Ford (MIND GAMES) returns to The Blind Rage Podcast in Dan Golden’s 1995 erotic thriller STRIPTEASER. It’s closing time at Zipper’s Clown Palace, a seedy Hollywood strip joint, when a blind man enters. In minutes, he drops the cane, sunglasses, and charade, now brandishing a shotgun, which he uses to hold the remaining employees, as well as its last patrons, hostage. What appears to be a ran...

Back in November of last year, Tony and I recorded a commentary for THE HITCHER (1986). Having done SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (1992) the week before, I spoke of the third Jennifer Jason Leigh movie that would make her a Blind Rage All-Star. Well, at the time, I’d forgotten James and I recorded a commentary for EYES OF A STRANGER (1981), one of Jennifer’s earliest films, a few years back. So, making her...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! The Blind Rage Podcast is kicking off 2024 with a bang! Several, in fact. Tony and I return to the land of the dirty, dirty for the third installment in the TABOO franchise. It truly amazes me how many downloads the commentaries for the first two films have gotten. Hell, the original has gotten well over 100,000 plays on YouTube and I’ve long since retired from updating the chann...

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE BLIND RAGE PODCAST!!! This year, Tony and I are spending the most joyous of holidays abroad, as we head on over to Jolly Ol’ England for DON’T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS. This campy mess of a film concerns a deranged killer stalking the streets of London in search of department store Santa Clauses, who he quickly dispatches of in grisly fashion. Very little character development...

“I’D RATHER YOU GO BALD TO SCHOOL THAN LOOKING LIKE A TRAMP!” Mr. Tony the Tiger a.k.a. Daddie Dearest, it seems, was determined to ruin this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast. First, he smacked me upside the head with a hairbrush—TWICE. Then, he tried to force gallons of Pepsi down my throat. And as if all that wasn’t bad enough, he received a delivery from Bear Daddy Bungalow in the middl...

“If you think that’s bad, wait’ll you get my bill.” This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, we take a look at one of horror’s underdogs. While Manny Coto’s DR. GIGGLES has accumulated a small, but dedicated cult following since its 1992 release, it never really got the love I always believed it truly deserved. Larry Drake gives one of the most memorable performances of his career, his portrayal of a...

The second half of this special two-part episode. This time, Tony and I take a look at the 2023 fan film DYLAN'S NEW NIGHTMARE. If you haven't already, please don't forget to check out the WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE episode.

“Pick a pet for the rugrat, bitch!” The Blind Rage Podcast is kicking off December with an early Christmas present for its most dedicated listeners! No, no. This isn’t something reserved purely for those who give us a few bucks a month. It’s for one and all. Isn’t that what Christmas is about? And by that I mean torso-shredding, neck-stabbing, and tongue-forking. This special two-part episode begi...

“You just tell ‘em how the cows eat the cabbage and you’ll be just fine.” I don’t understand why HIGH TENSION continues to get so much flack. If ever there was a horror movie that made zero sense, it’s this pile of…whatever this is. This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, it’s TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION a.k.a. THE RETURN OF THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, notorious for casting then unk...

“There’s roadkill all over Texas.” It’s Thanksgiving week! Here on The Blind Rage Podcast, we’re showing our appreciation with severed limbs, crushed skulls, and a side of greens. LEATHERFACE: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III, in my opinion, marked the end of the franchise. Sure, there were additional sequels and some remakes, but they never felt tonally attached to the first three films. As a matt...

It’s almost impossible to believe, but there was once a time in America when hitch-hiking was considered safe. My grandfather would regularly pick up strangers walking along the side of the road (with kids in the car, mind you) and drop them off wherever they needed to go. More often than not, the hitch-hiker was just a poor down-on-his-luck schmuck who needed a ride to work. He’d be dropped off a...

Gobble, gobble! The Blind Rage Podcast kicks off the month of November with one of the most iconic thrillers of the ‘90s: SINGLE WHITE FEMALE. Without movies like this, Lifetime would essentially have no content, as the premise has been duplicated and replicated many, many times. Few female villains have been able to match the rage and intensity of Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), or the doe-...

Video Nasties Month concludes not with a Video Nasty, but with a movie about Video Nasties. Specifically, about a woman, whose job it is to censor Video Nasties. That’s either absurdly confusing, or insanely meta. I consider Prano Bailey-Bond’s 2021 CENSOR to be a breath of fresh air in a decade which has been pretty disappointing for horror devotees. I’ve found very few current releases to be at...

Video Nasties Month just got nastier… And sleazier… And bloodier… This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, Tony and I sit down to watch Romano Scavolini’s 1981 splatterfest NIGHTMARE a.k.a. NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN. Steeped in controversy, this slice of acquired taste is remembered by many horror fans due to its excessive gore, censorship, and false accusations of Tom Savini being part of the cre...

“Darlings, you have made your mother very proud.” Video Nasties Month continues on The Blind Rage Podcast! This week, Tony and I take a look at Charles Kauffman’s 1980 cult classic MOTHER’S DAY, a favorite among Troma and slasher fans alike. The premise couldn’t be simpler: a trio of female friends camping in the woods of New Jersey are accosted by a pair of inbred brothers, led by their deranged...

Video Nasties Month continues on The Blind Rage Podcast! For week 2, Tony and I explore 1981’s THE BURNING, a camp slasher featuring some of the most infamous on-screen slaughters in horror history, as well as some of Tom Savini’s best and grisliest effects. I don’t think anyone ever has, or ever could, walk away from this movie without the notorious raft sequence ingrained in their memory. So, pa...

“I warned you not to go out tonight…” It’s October!!! To help celebrate the Season of the Witch, it’s Video Nasties Month on The Blind Rage Podcast! First up is…uh…a movie that, well, isn’t technically a Video Nasty, but it was banned in the UK for many years and sold under video shop counters in brown paper bags. It was so notorious, in fact, that it wasn’t even given a proper, uncut release unti...

“You know the best advice I ever got? If you’re up there on stage, hopin’ on a spot, if someone gets in your way, step on ‘em. If you’re the only one left standin’ there, they hire you.” It’s The SHOWGIRLS Shindig this week on The Blind Rage Podcast! Before Tony and I dive into Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 enduring cult classic, we examine YOU DON’T NOMI, the documentary which coincided with the 25th ann...

“I am a pervert…an exhibitionist…a masturbator…and a killer.” On this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast, we take a look at the 2002 biopic DAHMER, featuring Jeremy Renner as the titular cannibal killer. Unlike the Netflix miniseries, which glamorizes and sexualizes the story, David Jacobson’s retelling of the Jeffrey Dahmer case stays closer to the facts of the crimes, while simultaneously...

This week, Sharon Stone makes her first appearance on The Blind Rage Podcast. In the 1991 psychological thriller SCISSORS, Stone plays Angela Anderson, a sexually repressed and socially awkward doll doctor, who is attacked and nearly assaulted in an elevator. She manages to fend off her assailant with a pair of scissors, but he vows to finish what he started. Thus begins a twisted game of cat and...

It’s September and summer is rapidly fading. Here on The Blind Rage Podcast, we’re approaching a new season with a little true crime. Though it’s been more than three decades since his execution, Ted Bundy remains one of the most infamous serial killers in the annals of American history, with movies and documentaries centered around the case released as recently as last year. This week, we’re taki...

Happy birthday to me… To celebrate my special day, Tony suggested we watch the classic cult comedy TEEN WITCH. If you were a child of the ‘80s, you knew this movie—and quite well—due to it’s heavy rotation on HBO, then The Disney Channel a few years later. On a dark and stormy night, Louise Miller (Robyn Lively) visits a local clairvoyant (Zelda Rubinstein), who warns her that as her 16th birthday...

Ya gotta give the people what they want…and apparently, what they want is incest. The commentary for the 1980 XXX cult classic TABOO has gotten more plays than any other episode of The Blind Rage Podcast. And I don’t mean it beat the most popular episode by a few digits. This particular commentary has far surpassed any other episode of the show (which I find a tad troubling, being that this is pri...